RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION IN NIGERIA A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW

Abstract

Over the years, Nigeria and some other developing economies have been making frantic efforts to grow and develop their economies through several initiatives. These initiatives include sensitizing the populace and providing training for individuals in entrepreneurship. This move became imperative in the face of massive unemployment and excruciating poverty among the citizenry. Not long ago, Nigeria took a step further to include entrepreneurship education in the curricula of tertiary institutes with the purpose of furnishing youths with the prerequisite entrepreneurial skills for job creation through engagement in small and medium enterprises, rather than seeking the same upon graduation. It is on these premises that this article seeks to examine entrepreneurship education as a means of ameliorating poverty through the agency of employment generation in Nigeria.